Passion and Language in Eighteenth-Century Literature [electronic resource] : The Aesthetic Sublime in the Work of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and Martha Fowke /
Wilputte, Earla.author.
Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie.
The need for a language for the passions -- Life's progress through the passions -- "Give me a speaking and a writing love": passionate letters -- The miscellany's picture poems and Haywood's poems on several occasions -- The plain dealer's progress from the garrison to the midwife -- The dangers of giving way to language -- Conclusion: Hill's, Fowke's, and Haywood's progress through the passions.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756
Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750
Sansom, Martha Fowke, 1689-1736
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—History and criticism.
History, Modern.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
Modern History.